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?? ??? 201?, PHP 5.6.0

- Core:

. Improved IS_VAR operands fetching. (Laruence, Dmitry)

. Implemented internal operator overloading

(RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_overloading_gmp). (Nikita)

- Session:

. Fixed Bug #65315 (session.hash_function silently fallback to default md5)

(Yasuo)

. Implemented Request #54649 (Create session_serializer_name()). (Yasuo)

. Implemented Request #17860 (Session write short circuit). (Yasuo)

. Implemented Request #20421 (session_abort() and session_reset() function).

(Yasuo)

. Implemented Request #11100 (session_gc() function). (Yasuo)

- mysqlnd:

. Disabled flag for SP OUT variables for 5.5+ servers as they are not natively

supported by the overlying APIs. (Andrey)

- OPcache:

. Added an optimization pass to convert FCALL_BY_NAME into DO_FCALL.

(Laruence, Dmitry)

. Added an optimization pass to merged identical constants (and related

cache_slots) in op_array->literals table. (Laruence, Dmitry)

. Added script level constant replacement optimization pass. (Dmitry)

- PDO_pgsql:

. Fixed Bug #42614 (PDO_pgsql: add pg_get_notify support). (Matteo)

. Fixed Bug #63657 (pgsqlCopyFromFile, pgsqlCopyToArray use Postgres < 7.3

syntax). (Matteo)

- GMP:

. Moved GMP to use object as the underlying structure and implemented various

improvements based on this.

(RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/operator_overloading_gmp). (Nikita)

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